A protest is under way in Co Cork by homeowners who had their properties damaged during Storm Babet over two years ago.
Members of the Middleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group are protesting outside County Hall.
According to Cork County Council, only 74 out of 725 properties have had work done since Storm Babet damaged buildings in October 2023.
Secretary of the Middleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group Caroline Leahy said Cork County Council claims the number is low because firms providing flood barriers cannot supply the demand that is there.
She added that the group have heard of admin errors that are also slowing down the process.
"We're nearly 12 months on from the announcement of that scheme and obviously nearly two years on from Storm Babet and we really don’t have any protection on the ground across East Cork, yet," she said.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, she said there is "huge worry" in the area over the lack of protection, adding that people were concerned about the possibility of bad rain over the weekend.
She said the community is depending on "luck all of the time to keep us safe" in the face of storms.
"Every time it rains that worry fills us - there is no reprieve from it."
Ms Leahy’s home was flooded during the storm, with the downstairs "completely wiped out".
"It’s something that you can’t really understand unless you’ve lived through it," she said.
She added that some barriers received by people were not to the standard they would have liked.
"They're not high enough, they’re not really the barriers that we were promised when the scheme was announced," she said.
"We were expected fitted ones that were much more solid. What we are being given are expandable barriers which are kind of like metal on essentially a car jack with kind of like wet suit material over it."
She added that these barriers are only 680 millilitres (2.2 feet) high, while people had water of 3 feet coming in - "so it is nowhere near adequate".
"Anyone that has received barriers may have only received one where we need two or three because the water came in the front door and back door together – so what we have at the moment really isn’t sufficient."
While the group is protesting at the council today, she said they plan on increasing their pressure all around as the orders "come from top down".
"This morning, we are just here really to raise awareness that we are still here we’re not happy with the progress on the ground and we need to be heard, and we need to be seen."
